Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unrepentant, he emerged to pull the noses of most of the important little men of the age, in cartoons which showed up their littleness and made them look funny besides. Sometimes, when he was deeply angry, he would strike straight out, as in his camera-strict drawing of a worker's family which had been murdered by the King's police...
Then they wheeled in the cake, a six-foot copy of a movie camera. Broadway's Betty Garrett (Mrs. Larry Parks) led the song composed for the occasion...
...movie camera is unique as a recorder of actual existence. The man who uses the camera correctly in this field resists the temptation to alter or improve on the actual. Rather, he perceives and communicates the poetic vitality of what is there for the camera...
...stodgy realism of "documentaries" as the poetry which it breeds is distinct from the sickly prettiness of most "art" movies. The film treats nature as purely and honorably as it treats man. There is no elaborate composing, no fancy work with filters or soft focus, no picturesqueness: the camera merely accepts and sensitively records the more than sufficient beauty of the world it sees. For unadorned, undoctored beauty, immediacy and sensuous abundance, the film is unique...
...Then the camera's eye fixed itself on Fidler's wand, as it pointed to the asterisks (snow), dots (rain), commas (drizzle) and other symbols on the maps. Fidler, the U.S. Weather Bureau's one-man radio and television department, was launching a show that he hopes to keep simple and uncluttered. His forecasts will ignore such weather map standbys as isobars ("too confusing...